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U.S. to Sign Major Oil Deals with Saudi Arabia During Trump Visit…

Oil major Saudi Aramco is expected to sign contracts with a dozen US firms during President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports, quoting sources familiar with the matter. According to the news agency, US companies Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, and Weatherford will help Saudi Arabia to develop local production. The Saudis will also […]

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Chelsea Manning Freed from Ft. Leavenworth…

Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier convicted of giving classified government materials to WikiLeaks, was freed from a Kansas military prison early Wednesday morning after serving seven years of her 35-year sentence. “After another anxious four months of waiting, the day has finally arrived. I am looking forward to so much! Whatever is ahead of […]

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DOJ: Task Force Takes Out 21 Of The ‘Most Violent’ MS-13 Members In L.A….

The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a law enforcement task force has taken out MS-13 leadership in Los Angeles. The task force, which included state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies, arrested 21 members and associates of MS-13 Wednesday. The DOJ has brought RICO charges against 44 individuals in LA. “This case has targeted the […]

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Syrian Army Rapidly Advancing on UK/US Special Forces Base…

Syrian government forces accompanied by Iranian and Hezbollah fighters are within 15 miles (24km) of a joint US/UK Special Forces base, sparking fears of a confrontation. British SAS troops were photographed at the heavily-fortified base at al-Tanf in 2016 and are thought to be operating alongside units from the US military, including in a training […]

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Selling More Weapons to the Reckless Saudis…

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are working on a package of arms deals and financial investments aimed at elevating economic and security cooperation between Washington and Riyadh after several years of strained relations over the U.S. diplomatic outreach to Iran. The potential agreements, coupled with Mr. Trump’s scheduled arrival in Saudi Arabia this week or […]

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Syria Talks Restart in Geneva…

A new round of Syria peace talks opened Tuesday in Geneva as the Damascus regime fiercely denied it used a prison crematorium to hide evidence of thousands of murdered detainees. Five previous rounds of UN-backed negotiations have failed to yield a solution to the six-year conflict. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura met with Syrian government […]

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Strategic Syria Policy Now Lies with Tillerson and Lavrov by Alistair Crooke…

No, we are not referring to James Comey’s dismissal (though this too, does reflect a change of mode). Perhaps we should have paid closer attention to Roger Stone, a long-time friend of the President, and his erstwhile campaign manager, who insists, and insists trenchantly, that Trump is his ‘own man’. Those who think Trump can […]

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Germany May Pull Troops Out of Turkish Base…

Wolfgang Hellmich, the chairman of the Bundestag Defense Committee told the German news agency dpa “we’re not going to be blackmailed” by the Ankara government after a second German parliamentary delegation was prevented from visiting Turkey’s Incirlik facility. The air base is being used in the international fightback against so-called “Islamic State” (IS) militants…

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Newly Formed Militant Group in Syria Receives Training and Equipment from Turkey…

The militant groups known as the Sultan Mohammed Al-Fateh Brigade, the Samarkand Brigade, Jaish al-Ahfad, the Al-Muntaser Bellah Brigade, the 101st Division, the Al-Fatah Brigade, the Tala’a al-Nasr Brigade joined the First Corps. The group now includes 10,000 fighters, according to Capt. Abu Kanan al-Homsi. Its militants had received training and equipment from Turkey…

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Trump Agrees to Arm Kurds in Hugely Significant Move for Syria by Patrick Cockburn…

President Trump’s decision to provide weapons to the Syrian Kurds, who are fighting Isis, potentially marks a crucial change in the political geography of the Middle East. In effect, the US is choosing to support its Kurdish ally in Syria, in defiance of Turkey, whose aim is to prevent the establishment of a quasi-independent Kurdish […]

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Syria’s Conflict: Russia Scores Big Foreign Policy Win…

What seemed to be unbelievable has finally happened! A pipe dream has come true! For the first time in six years since the Syrian conflict sparked, light is seen at the end of the tunnel. In a major foreign policy breakthrough, Moscow has received major international support of its conflict management initiative. On May 4, […]

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How U.S. Nuclear Force Modernization Is Undermining Strategic Stability…

The US nuclear forces modernization program has been portrayed to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and safety of warheads in the US nuclear arsenal, rather than to enhance their military capabilities. In reality, however, that program has implemented revolutionary new technologies that will vastly increase the targeting capability of the US […]

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Secretary Tillerson Meets With Russia’s FM Sergei Lavrov…

“I want to welcome Foreign Minister Lavrov to the State Department and express my appreciation for him making the trip to Washington so that we can continue our dialogue and our exchange of views that began in Moscow with the dialogue he hosted on a very broad range of topics. Thank you”…

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Lavrov, Tillerson to Discuss Ukraine, Syria in Wednesday Meeting…

Tillerson visited Moscow in April, meeting both with Foreign Minister Lavrov and President Putin. Trump praised the meeting and said that the talks were successful. However, later in April Tillerson said that Moscow and Washington had not solved any issues during his visit to Russia. The top diplomats are expected to discuss stopping violence in […]

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Photos from Syria Show White Helmets and Nusra/Qaeda Are the Same Organization…

Unlike journalists associated with the Western corporate media, Vanessa Beeley has been reporting from inside Syria on and off since early 2016. In many cases, while the Western corporate press was reporting in the most authoritative manner about the alleged “crimes against humanity” committed by the Syrian government in Aleppo despite having no one on […]

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Disturbing OIG Report: More Than 100 Vets Died Waiting for Care at Los Angeles VA…

More than 100 veterans died while waiting for care at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Los Angeles, Calif., over a nine-month span ending in August 2015, according to a new government report. The VA Office of Inspector General found in a recent healthcare inspection that 225 veterans at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System […]

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Soon to Be Released, Chelsea Manning Thanked Obama and Supporters for Keeping Her Alive…

Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier imprisoned for publishing classified military information, released her first statement on Tuesday since being granted clemency by former President Barack Obama in the waning days of his presidency, according to the Associated Press. In the statement, Manning said she hopes to use the lessons she’s learned to help others improve […]

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